British Rail-March Station 1992 

Thank you...i filmed back in these days purley for myself so am pleased they have found a wider audience that appreciates them as well....

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Your videos are very much appreciated. There are as entertaining as they are useful for modelling.

My pleasure.... Yes working the boxes around here were hard work, all lvers, rods & pulleys.....

There was a double bay at the Peterborough end of the station between the platforms where the branch trains from Wisbech & Spaling locals would use.

Thank you, i do have more from here and will upload over time.

I had it for haulage in mainline blue livery in the year 2000, from Warrington Bank Quay to Manchester Piccadilly. It was standing in for a failed 37/4. Happy days.

I used a Panasonic M series video camera, they took full sized VHS tapes. That way i never had to copy from small tapes to big ones, that was where you would lose quality. Later transferred to DVD and now on MP4 as well.....

Thank you, there will be more.

For the record it was in Summer 91. There is more, i seem to recall as the progressed a pair of 20s made an appearence!

@@PenzancePete lol :)

I can't imagine it's any better now!

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus It's way better, I live in march and they closed down platform 3 for the line to Wisbeach if I am correct.

@@tom1works There were around 7 platforms at March from what i have seen, especially evident before those white fences were erected. There is a bay on the Peterborough platform, a double bay between the Ely & Spalding platform and of course a far side Spalding platform. The Wisbech service probably ran from the double bay, afairly large station with two main routes off it plus other lines that have closed, like the direst line to Cambridge that avoided Ely for instance....

No! Definatly a come down in rateable traction there......

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Well there was plenty of freight action in 1992 but how much still passes i'm unsure, although it probably gets a lot of liner trains on the route from Felixstowe to the Midlands.

Aren't there plans to reopen it?

That's about right. A friend of my fathers was a Shed Foreman there on the engineering side. They did all sorts of quirky stuff, 47 674 got a repaint in Large Logo blue using a tin of unstired NSE blue. The loco started in a light shade one end and got darker as the painter went around the loco!!!

Haha brilliant! Yes 674, thats why i could never work out if it was in the earlier lighter NSE blue or other dark blue blimey! Great story, SF was the best for loco enhancements, all them sparrows, grey roofs and black marker boxes eh. 47526 was given the same treatment as 674 i seem to remember. Talking of paints at SF, i jus put a vid on my channel about obtaining some BR blue there lol :)

08 715 also got an all over yellow paint job but it was never actually used in that colour and just left stored, shame! But lots of old style paint jobs, 31 165, 37 216 and of course 219. Some of the staff were definatly 'cranks' and well into railways!

Haha great stuff sir! Yeah i foto'd 08715 parked on its usual road outside 'C' shed in '93 after its paint into 'Dayglo orange' i seem to remember, fantastic memories there. And yes they were great staff, think i was only asked to leave once in about 50 visits i made between '87-99, and that was because it was a monday morning! . . keep these vids coming sir, i must of watched this over 10 times (my era) thanks :)

I have some film taken inside the TMD at Stratford, some locos moving about as well as staic locos. Taken around 1991 time. I'll see if i can dig it out!

When i went there to video it was a busy place with lots of locos on freight, parcels and passenger workings. I have more from here which i will upload over time.

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I'm sure I am not the only one who would like to see more of your footage from back then. I got a glimpse of March back in 1978 and remember signalboxes semaphores level crossings and class 37s!

Yes, March was a great place-a steam age railway just with more modern traction. I will get some more up over time, it's just i have a large amount of film from all over the UK and try and get a good spread of areas to keep people's interest up!